by Katie Duncan
(Austin, TX)
I made this cake for a close friend's 40th birthday. While she's not a diva, she is an incredibly beautiful woman who enjoys all type of girly things like purses and shoes. ;-)
The bottom tier was a dark chocolate cake (my favorite is Hershey's Black Magic Cake recipe) with a berry buttercream. I used a Swiss Meringue Buttercream and infused it with a (strained) mix of fresh strawberries, raspberries and blackberries.
The top tier was a white cake with a lemon buttercream, also Swiss Meringue Buttercream mixed with fresh lemon curd. This was my first bow, featured on the bottom tier. I've made a few since then for practice, so now I know how to affix it to the cake so that it doesn't fall off halfway through a party!
It's covered in fondant and topped with a purse cake and a high heeled shoe made of gumpaste. Both the purse and the shoe were the first I've made of each, but I'm happy with the results overall.
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